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Courts & crime, 1990

96 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 5

What We Say Sack the police Rambos!

Tribune · Wednesday 4 July 1990 · page 3

The David Gundy killing; the South African-style raid on the Black ghetto in Redfern; the horrific facial injuries…

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US Court upholds barring of menorah

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 July 1990 · page 20

WASHINGTON — In the latest legal battle over the placement of religious symbols on public property, the Supreme Court last week refused to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling barring a 16-foot menorah from a public park in Burlington, Vermont…

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Human rights complaints against police

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 July 1990 · page 20

JERUSALEM — Palestinian teenagers interrogated by police and by General Security Service agents are routinely beaten up, bound to a pipe in awkward positions, and held for hours in tiny punishment cells where they cannot move, according to a report by…

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INTERNATIONAL Agudath Israel lauds court decision

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 July 1990 · page 22

WASHINGTON — Agudath Israel of America has welcomed the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that states have the right to prevent the family of a comatose patient from removing life-sustaining equipment…

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Will Demjanjuk hang? The Jerusalem Post’s Ernie Meyer looks at the options open to the Israeli Supreme Court, which recently concluded its hearings on convicted war criminal John Demjanjuk against his death sentence

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 July 1990 · page 20

JOHN DEMJANJUK’s life is now in the hands of the Supreme Court. A. bench of five justices recently ended…

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Israel denies 'stealing' Arab water

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 August 1990 · page 19

THE MEKOROT Water Authority has strongly denied Jordanian accusations that Israel is “stealing Arab water.” The…

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Nationalists planned Nazi state: court told

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 August 1990 · page 5

THE AUSTRALIAN Nationalist Movement (ANM) had “an Aryan army” prepared to murder Jews, Asians and Aborigines and…

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Opinion Church and state and the US Supreme Court PARTISAN

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 August 1990 · page 33

TO JEWS outside America the retirement of Justice William J. Brennan Jr after 34 years on the United States Supreme Court…

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Israelis go on rampage after slayings The brutal murder of two Jewish teenagers just outside Jerusalem earlier this month has unleashed a wave of fury in Israel and calls for a harsh crackdown on the intifada. David Landau and Gil Sedan report

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 August 1990 · page 23

IN THE WAKE of the brutal murder last week of two Israeli teenagers, Ariel Sharon temporarily put aside his…

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Jews and the Martial Arts the Declining interest by Jews in martial arts could be due to our relatively safe society which has shown little violence towards Jews and made us rely so heavily on police and justice for protection. However, unless Jews like other members of society learn to defend themselves, they are vulnerable to acts of violence. Jews who participate in martial arts are setting a fine example for the rest of the Jewish community. Adir Shiffman

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 August 1990 · page 50

JACKIE MASON, the famous Jewish comedian, once quipped “no one is scared to go into a Jewish neighbourhood for fear of…

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VC Men against sexual assault

Tribune · Wednesday 29 August 1990 · page 12

A group of men in Melbourne is organising to fight against the increasing levels of sexual and other forms of violence against women and children…

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JJJ-- Fuck the radio police!

Tribune · Wednesday 29 August 1990 · page 4

Over 400 young people rallied outside the Sydney studios of Radio JJJ yesterday to protest against the sacking of many of the station's prominent presenters and workers last Friday. They invaded the studios and…

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BRIEFS... London police alarmed at anti-semitism

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 31 August 1990 · page 18

LONDON — The London Metropolitan Police have expressed alarm at the recent sharp increase of anti-semitic vandalism in and around the city. One of the most serious incidents was the assault on the Willesden cemetery, where about 25 gravestones were…

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Unsolved murder Theatre a Death in the Family (Originally titled Blood Relations) by Sharon Pollock Directed by Louise Luccarini New Theatre, Newtown

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 31 August 1990 · page 32

“LIZZIE Borden took an axe, Gave her mother 40 whacks, When the job was nicely done, She gave her father 41.”…

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Police competition winner

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 7 September 1990 · page 11

DEBORAH Kotz, a Year 5 student at St Ives North Public School won an Aurora bicycle and Rosebank Stackhat in the…

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NEWS High Court judges question War Crimes Act

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 7 September 1990 · page 3

JUDGES OF the High Court have expressed concern about some parts of the War Crimes Act passed last year to allow the…

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Police make music with Moriah band

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 14 September 1990 · page 10

THE NSW Police Concert Band of 35 players was founded 94 years ago. The Moriah College High School (Bellevue Hill) Band is only six months old. Despite differences of age and experience, the two…

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Brutal murder of soldier in Gaza poses challenge for Arens policy

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 28 September 1990 · page 41

JERUSALEM: The savage murder of an Israel Defence Force reservist in the Gaza Strip last Thursday has shocked Israelis…

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Court told US embassy was terrorists’ target

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 28 September 1990 · page 14

PALESTINIAN terrorists who took part in the May 30 terrorist attack on Tel Aviv area beaches had the US Embassy as one of…

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BRIEFS... Levinger convicted of assault

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 5 October 1990 · page 14

RABBI Moshe Levinger, the Gush Emunim leader from Hebron who was released from jail over a month ago, has been convicted again of anti-Arab activities. The Jerusalem District Court last week overturned a lower court’s decision to acquit him of charges…

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